This is an analysis of the poem Verses On Rome that begins with:
O Rome, tremendous! who, beholding thee,
Shall not forget the bitterest private grief... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdeXcfafgafXhhehiXaaccdX aajXXeXdddjXcdeaddjXfkelXdfgjXkmehdjfcfngggkjXddXdadciXjheddhfcddcXodnljjjmoffijdhholfi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,87,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 11010100101 11011001101 11011101110 10001011101 1100010001 110001001011 110101001100 11110011101 11010110111 1001011111 111111010100 11001101011 1111011101 01011011100 1100110111 111101110100 100100101001 01110101001 11011001110 101101111110 0101011001 1101100101 11010101010 11110101010 1111010111 101101001110 11010010111 110100110011 0111110101 0100110111 0101100110 1111110011 111100110010 0101000100100 10010100110 0101000101 11001010111 010101100100 0101010100 10010100110 11010010111 111101001011 1101010100 1001000100 1011111101 101100010010 1011110101 11010111010 1101111101 1001011101 1001011100 0111010100 1101110101 11010101010 0101010100 111001001000 10110101110 010101001011 0111010101 01000101100 00110111010 1111010110 1101110101 1011110100 1101111101 11010101101 01110100110 10011011011 1001001111 11010101110 1101110111 0101010100 10110011010 01111111111 1101111111 0101000101 1011000101 11011110110 01010101010 10010101010 1001000111 010010010001 11010010101 1101010101 10011101001 110101001010 0101000101 1001010111 1001001101100 01010010101 10010011010 10110001010 110100001110 1101110011 1011000101 1001010101 10110100110 0101010101 1101010101 00110000110 01110100101 0111010101 1101011001 01010101110 10110111010 1111110101 1101010101 1111010111 1001010100 1111111101 011101001010 11010111110 11010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2524
- Average number of words per stanza: 434
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, of, in, thy, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, whose, where are repeated.
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